Crip Theory and Mad Studies: Intersections and Points of Departure

Thorneycroft, Ryan

doi:10.15353/cjds.v9i1.597

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“…As such, in a decolonizing sense, they are also effectively un-"erasing them[selves] as subjects of any kind of meaningful discourses" [86] (p. 49). Self-authored hypervisibility has long been a tool of queer and crip performers, who demonstrate to the world their capacity to resist dominant projections of their (in)abilities [88,89]. Such affirmative politics of difference through visible performance foster what Rice refers to as "a move away from cultural practices of enforcing norms" and related attempts to "regulate bodily diversity" [90] (p. 392).…”

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‘Mind Your Business and Leave My Rolls Alone’: A Case Study of Fat Black Women Runners’ Decolonial Resistance

Ashdown-Franks

Joseph

2021

Societies

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The Black female body has been vilified, surveilled, and viewed as ‘obese’ and irresponsible for centuries in Western societies. For just as long, some Black women have resisted their mischaracterizations. Instead they have embraced a ‘fat’ identity. But little research has demonstrated how Black fat women participate in sport. The purpose of this study is to show how Black fat women who run use social media to unapologetically celebrate Blackness and fatness. This research uses a case-study approach to illuminate a broader phenomenon of decolonial resistance through running. In addition to analysis of websites, blogs, and news articles devoted to Black women’s running, we discuss the (social) media content of two specific runners: Mirna Valerio and Latoya Shauntay Snell. We performed a critical discourse analysis on 14 media offerings from the two runners, including websites, Twitter pages, and blogs collected over a five-month period from September 2020–January 2021. The analysis examined how they represent themselves and their communities and how they comment on issues of anti-fat bias, neoliberal capitalism, ableist sexism, and white supremacy, some of the pillars of colonialism. Whereas running is often positioned as a weight-loss-focused and white-dominated colonial project, through their very presence and use of strategic communication to amplify their experiences and build community, these runners show how being a Black fat female athlete is an act of decolonial resistance. This study offers a unique sporting example of how fat women challenge obesity discourses and cultural invisibility and how Black athletes communicate anti-racist, decolonial principles.

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‘Mind Your Business and Leave My Rolls Alone’: A Case Study of Fat Black Women Runners’ Decolonial Resistance

Ashdown-Franks

Joseph

2021

Societies

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“…Second, just as community psychologists have paid primary attention to psychiatric disabilities, activists, and scholars in the field of disability studies have focused less on the rights and well‐being of individuals with psychiatric disabilities and more so on the rights of people with nonpsychiatric disabilities (Morgan, 2021). Scholars in disability studies have argued that while social exclusion and marginalization of people with psychiatric and nonpsychiatric disability manifest similarly, advocacy efforts and social movements, scholarship, and even healthcare benefits have treated psychiatric and nonpsychiatric disabilities distinctly (Thorneycroft, 2020). As such, psychiatric disabilities/mental health/mental illness warrants a distinct reflection.…”

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Disability rights and empowerment: Reflections on AJCP research and a call to action

Suarez‐Balcazar,

Balcazar,

Labbe

et al. 2023

American J of Comm Psychol

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People living with physical, sensory, intellectual, and/or developmental disabilities experience complex social, environmental, political, and cultural challenges along with stigma and marginalization in education, employment, and community life. These multiple and complex barriers often hinder their full and effective participation in society. In this reflection, we curated articles on physical, sensory, intellectual, and/or developmental disabilities published in the American Journal of Community Psychology from 1973 to 2022. We reviewed titles and abstracts to identify themes that grouped manuscripts in relevant community psychology core concepts and values. From our analysis, five themes emerged: (a) promoting empowerment and advocacy; (b) promoting organizations and settings that support people with disabilities; (c) including people with disabilities in knowledge production; (d) promoting social justice in disability research, and (e) promoting support networks of families of people with disabilities. We conclude this reflection with a discussion of recommendations for future research, practice, and a call to action.

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“…Madness and mad thoughts, feelings and behaviours have been historically – and are still currently – associated with illness, immorality and the societal segregation of those who are deemed mad or identify with their madness (Gomory and Dunleavy, 2017). As Thorneycroft (2020: n.p. ) describes, mad is not just a noun or identity term, but also a verb – ‘to identify, unearth, disrupt, and subvert’ sanism.…”

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Maddening pre-service early childhood education and care through poetics: Dismantling epistemic injustice through mad autobiographical poetics

Davies

2023

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

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In this article, the author forwards the importance of mad autobiographical poetic writing to challenge and disrupt epistemic injustice within pre-service early childhood education and care. They explore their own mad autobiographical poetic writing as a queer, non-binary, mad early childhood educator and pre-service early childhood education and care faculty member, and argue that mad poetic writing can methodologically be used as a form of resistance to epistemic injustices and epistemological erasure in early childhood education and care. This article argues for the importance of autobiographical writing in early childhood education and care, and the necessity of centralizing early childhood educators’ subjectivities and histories when addressing – and transforming – issues of equity, inclusion and belonging in early childhood education and care. The personal and intimate mad autobiographical poetic writing of this article – written by the author – focuses on how personal experience with madness as it pertains to working within pre-service early childhood education and care can challenge norms that govern and regulate madness. Ultimately, the author argues that transformation in early childhood education and care can take place by reflecting on experiences of mental and emotional distress, and considering poetic writings as starting places for imagining new futurities and a plurality of educator voices and perspectives.

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Crip Theory and Mad Studies: Intersections and Points of Departure

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‘Mind Your Business and Leave My Rolls Alone’: A Case Study of Fat Black Women Runners’ Decolonial Resistance

‘Mind Your Business and Leave My Rolls Alone’: A Case Study of Fat Black Women Runners’ Decolonial Resistance

Disability rights and empowerment: Reflections on AJCP research and a call to action

Maddening pre-service early childhood education and care through poetics: Dismantling epistemic injustice through mad autobiographical poetics

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